The Indigenous community surrounded by jungle is about a 30-minute walk from the port where a few more minutes aboard a boat brings them to their former homes
Residents from the island of Gardi Sugdub walk to their new homes on the mainland in Nuevo Carti on Panama's Caribbean coast, on June 5.Hammocks began appearing this week in the doorways of 300 new houses built in what was previously a yucca field along Panama’s Caribbean coast for families from the country’s first low-lying island evacuated due to rising sea levels.
Most of Gardi Sugdub’s families had moved or were in the process of moving, but Isberyala’s freshly paved and painted streets named after historic Guna leaders were still largely empty.Civil protection officials move residents' belongings on a boat to the mainland from Gardi Sugdub Island, top, off Panama's Caribbean coast, on June 5.. Government officials said they expected everyone to be moved in by Thursday.
He didn’t think climate change was responsible for the move, but rather decisions made by people. “Man is who harms nature,” Arango said. “Now they want to cut down all the trees to build houses on solid ground.”Every year, especially when the strong winds whip up the sea in November and December, water fills the streets and enters the homes. Climate change isn’t only leading to a rise in sea levels, but it’s also warming oceans and thereby powering stronger storms.
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